Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo -- a black on the outside, a white on the inside -- that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience

The whole point of working and practicing your whole life is so that you're ready when that moment arrives; when the inspiration arrives, you are ready to be at the disposal of inspiration.

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.